Fur trimmed article and method of making same



Aug. 13, 1936.

E. W. DUNBAR I FUR TRIMMED ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed Sept. 5, 1955 Patented Aug. 18, 1936 UNITED STATES FURTRIMMED ARTICLE AND METHOD or MAKING SAME Ernest Dunbar, Hudson,Mass.,; assignor to Cambridge Rubber 60., Cambridge, Mass, a

corporation of Massachusetts Application September 5, 1935, Serial No. 39,233

Claims. (c1.1i2 262) This invention relates to fur trimmed articles of apparel and to methods of securing fur trim ming or other fur parts to such articles. a

It is substantially the universal practice to se 'cure fur trimming or other fur parts to any article of wearing apparel by sewing. This operation is greatly impeded by the presence of the hair or fur, and this is especially true if the seam must be made at any point spaced substantially from the extreme edge of the skin.

The present invention deals with this problem and aims to devise a thoroughly practical solution for it.

The nature of the invention will be readily understood from the following description whenread in connection with the accompanying drawing, and the novel features will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an overshoe, moccasin, or the like, partly turned inside out and provided with fur trimming around its upper edge;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of sewing instrumentalities of a common type, but equipped with supplemental mechanism embodying features of this invention; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional, diagrammatic view illustrating steps in the present method.

According to the method provided by this invention, a jet of air is blown into the fur and parts the hair at the point where the fur is to be stitched or otherwise secured to an article of work. The stitching or other fastening operation is performed at this point while the hair is so held parted, and these operations are repeated at other points until the fur piece has been secured in the desired manner. In the case of sewing or stitching, which usually is performed by a suitable machine, the Work is fed past the sewing instrumentalities, while the jet of air continuously blows into the fur and maintains the hair parted in the region of the stitching oper-' ation. This permits the anchoring of the stitches directly on the surface of the skin without entangling any substantial number of hairs with the stitches. Consequently, after'the stitching operation has been completed and the work is shaken or brushed, the fur over the seam resumes its normal appearance, completely hiding the seam.

These operations are illustrated in Fig. 2 in which the needle of the sewing machine is illustrated at 2, the needle bar at 3, and the presser foot at 4. Mounted in front of the needle bar is an air tube 5, which may be connected to any convenient source'of air'under pressure, and the lower end of the tube 'is' curved to form a nozzle which serves to directthe jet of air issuing from it into the fur at a point immediately in front of 5 the needle. The work is fed 'from right to left, Fig. 2, so that th area in which thehair is parted isfed'forward' under the presser foot and to the needle'by the usual feeding mechanism with which these'machines are equipped, Thus the hair is so-disposed that it does not substantially impede the sewing or stitching operation, and this is true regardless of the point in the area of the skin or pelt at which the stitching operation is performed. The invention therefore effectually overcomes the difficulty above described.

This method is especially useful in securing a strip of fur trimming to the edge of any article of clothing, such for example, as the upperedge of the overshoe shown at 6 in Fig. 1. In Fig. 3 the skin portion of such a strip is shown at 1, the fur at 8, the outer layer of the upper of the overshoe at 9, and the lining at l8. According to the preferred practice, the edge of the strip 1 is first secured to the margin of the upper by the seam 22. This stitching operation can conveniently be performed in the usual manner, due to the fact that the seam is run closely adjacent to the edge of the strip 7, and consequently, the hair can be kept under control by the sewing machine operator. In other Words, this hair can be laid back, substantially as shown at the lower portion of Fig. 3, and held by the thumb or fingers of the operator. It will be observed that the flesh side of the skin is in contact with the work. After the seam l2 has been run, then the fur strip can be folded over the edge of the upper material and laid against the outer surface '9 of the upper; after which, or in connection with which folding operation, a second seam I3 is run. It would be extremely difficult, if not impractical, to make this kind of a seam without the aid of the air jet above described. But with it the seam may easily 7 be made in the manner indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, the jet of air maintaining the hair continuously parted in front of the needle 2 as the work is fed through the machine and the thread is stitched in to produce the seam.

By this'method fur trimming can be stitched, with relatively little labor, to the margin of any article of apparel and a novel and exceptionally secure fastening of the trimming to the work is produced. In addition, the labor involved in these operations is minimized.

In Fig. 1 the fur trimming is shown extending 'from a notch at one side of'anovershoe, around the back, to the corresponding point at the opposite side, and theseamsshown at 12 and I3 in Fig. 3 are indicated by corresponding numerals in Fig. 1.; The tongue M of the overshoe also is shown trimmed in a similar manner.

'Having thus described my invention, what I desire to claim as new is: i I

1. That improvement in methods of securing a section of fur to an article, which consists in parting the hair by blowing a jet of air into it, and fastening the trimming and the article together at the point where the hair isso parted and while it is so parted.

2. That improvement in methods'of securing a section of fur to an article, which consists in sewing along ap roximately a predetermined path on said section and said article and thereby joining them together, parting the hair for the sewingoperation'by blowing a jet of air into the 'fur atta point imrnediatelypreceding the sewing point, and continuingjsaid sewing operation to produce a seam while maintaining the jet in its operative relationship'to the sewing instrumentalities. I

3. That improvement in methods of'securin a, section of- ,fur toan articles-which consists in parting the hair by blowing a jet of air into it, sewing through'said section at the point where the hair is so parted and while it is so parted and therebysecuring it to said article, feeding I and said article to produce a second seam securit to said article, the free hairs'on the outer.

7 the work past said jet and ?the sewing point to article, folding said strip over the edge of said article, and then stitching through said strip ing said strip and article together, and during the latter sewing operation, blowing a jet of air into the fur close to the stitching point to part thehair for the stitching operation.

5. A fur trimmed article comprising a'strip of fur trimming stitched along its edge to the inner margin of said article, said trimmingbeingfoldj ed over said edge, and a seam extendingthrough the folded over portion of said strip and securing side of said strip being located at both sides-of saidseam so that the-seam is buried in the fur? and its stitches being substantiallyunentangled. with the hairs of the fur. 1 V V ERNEST w. DUYNBAB; 

